Foster Wheeler awarded contract for Lanxess’s EPDM project in China

6:14 AM MST | November 27, 2012 | Deepti Ramesh

Foster Wheeler says it has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contract by Lanxess for a previously announced, new ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) synthetic rubber plant being built at the Changzhou Yangtze Riverside Industrial Park at Changzhou, China. Foster Wheeler is currently executing the front-end engineering design (FEED) for this facility. Lanxess announced plans for the project last September and the company said it is investing €235 million ($304 million) to build the plant at Changzhou, which will...